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Now the reason I am so angry with all this is not because I have had them here to stay. They are a lovely couple whom I love to bits. No, the reason I am angry is because of the stress it has placed squarely on the shoulders of my father-in-law. My mother-in-law has Alzheimer’s and can barely lift her feet, but over here she has no option but climb stairs to bedroom. She has a carer morning and night over the road to get her up washed and dressed etc. But due to these issues with British Gas, has only had carer at night, so that my father-in-law has had to deal with morning routine which puts a tremendous strain on him on top of everything else.
I haven't mentioned yet that he has severe angina and has had a serious heart attack in past. This stress is making him ill. I can see it, but due to my own arthritis he will not hear of me dealing with my mother-in-law for him! He insists I’m doing enough by cooking and caring for them during their stay with us. He's not a man to argue with on that score!
He is, as I write this, on his way over to the house again to let the workmen in. Hopefully they will finally fit the two radiators leave their house habitable once more as I think any more strain could have him in hospital, which incidentally is where his OLDER sister is due to the stress heaped on her with the same carry-on in another town regarding the putting in of the new heating systems!
We have since heard from his neighbours who are in their seventies that they too had to put up with many cancelled jobs whilst having their heating systems upgraded before work finally started, only to find wrong sizes ordered which took weeks in their case to be sorted out!
Is this some kind of underhanded ploy to rid our country of the “burden” of elderly people? If this is the way elderly people are generally treated, then British Gas should be ashamed of themselves.
By: Nona
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